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• [NBA] - Jazz sign center Isaac Haas

  16-08-2018 23:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... of the agreement were not released. Haas (7-2, 290, Purdue) competed for the Jazz at the 2018 Utah Jazz Summer League and NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. He s ...
  
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• We have signed Center Isaac Haas >> on.nba.com/2nKPHCs https://t.co/OxDhBssldA

  16-08-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
  
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• LDS Church wants everyone to stop calling it the LDS Church — and drop the word ‘Mormons’

  16-08-2018 23:02
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is once again trying to get the media to stop calling it “Mormon” — and President Russell M. Nelson wants to eliminate the use of “LDS” as well.On Thursday, the church released this statement from Nelson:“The Lord has impressed upon my mind the importance of the name he has revealed for his church, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have work before us to bring ourselves in harmony with his
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Filmmakers discuss ‘Jane & Emma’ and the friendship between a determined black convert and the first lady of Mormonism

  16-08-2018 22:58
  Emma Smith stands alone as the most famous woman in Mormon history. The wife of church founder Joseph Smith is mentioned in histories, journals, even LDS scripture.Less known is her enduring and endearing friendship with the early church’s most noted black woman, Jane Manning James.A forthcoming film, titled “Jane and Emma,” documents and dramatizes that friendship.The movie’s director, Chantelle Squires, and its screenwriter, Melissa Leilani Larson, discuss the film, its
  
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• Some influential people in golf are giving former BYU star Patrick Fishburn’s pro career a boost as he returns to defend Utah Open title

  16-08-2018 22:57
  Provo • Texas-based sports agent Rocky Hambric has an eye for rising golf talent, and is widely credited for discovering and promoting two of the top golfers in the world, No. 1-ranked Dustin Johnson and recent U.S. Open and PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka.Hambric, who has represented professional golfers for more than 40 years, looks for taller, athletic golfers who recently turned pro and can hit the golf ball ridiculously far.His latest recruit just happens to be from Utah.Former B
  
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• A transgender BYU student could be expelled and face discipline in the Mormon church for having breast-removal surgery

  16-08-2018 22:47
  It was a few minutes after 10 a.m. and mostly quiet in the Irvins' small blue house on Rocket Drive. Ten-year-old Toby Irvin had just come downstairs from his bedroom. He pulled out a book of world records and flipped through the pages at the kitchen table.“The heaviest wedding cake ever made was 6.8 tons,” he rattled off, using his inside voice as instructed. “… The oldest person to live was 122. … The oldest dog was 29 years old.”Kris and Nate Irvin had se
  
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• An Iraqi refugee with Utah ties is arrested in California, accused of carrying out a murder for the Islamic State

  16-08-2018 22:42
  Sacramento, Calif. • A refugee from Iraq was arrested Wednesday in Northern California on a warrant alleging that he killed an Iraqi policeman while fighting for the Islamic State organization.Years before 45-year-old Omar Abdulsattar Ameen’s arrest at a Sacramento apartment building, the man initially entered the United States and lived in Utah through much of 2014 and 2015. Prosecutors allege Ameen and other members of ISIS killed the officer after the town of Rawah, Iraq, fell to t
  
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• Gehrke: The new lawsuit targeting the medical marijuana initiative is so flimsy. How flimsy? I quickly found seven major problems with it.

  16-08-2018 22:28
  The opponents to Utah’s medical marijuana initiative are looking a little desperate.On Wednesday, the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Utah (great name by the way, but they should’ve worked “and Puppies” in there somewhere) filed a lawsuit alleging the initiative would violate the religious liberties of Mormons who don’t want to associate or have to rent apartments to people who use medical marijuana.The lawsuit is easily one of the flimsiest, most baseless cases I&
  
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• HBD @SInow 🎉📬 https://t.co/sTsonPXf0u

  16-08-2018 22:02 via twitter.com
  
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• Derrick, you did a good block. #NBABlockWeek twitter.com/NBA/status/103…

  16-08-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  Derrick, you did a good block.#NBABlockWeek twitter.com/NBA/status/103…
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU preseason football camp never disappoints when it comes to producing drama, intrigue …. and controversy

  16-08-2018 20:59
  Eye on the Y is our weekly newsletter on all things BYU athletics, with stories from The Salt Lake Tribune, and other local and national media outlets who are weighing on on the Cougars. Subscribe here.Hello friends, and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Salt Lake Tribune’s newsletter on BYU athletics, which we’re calling “Eye on the Y” — at least until we think of something better.Why? To bring you more coverage of BYU sports — primarily football and ba
  
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• Feds may require Utah to redesign, reissue all driver licenses to make sure they comply with airport security

  16-08-2018 20:57
  Utah lawmakers are upset that the federal government is trying to make the state reprint and reissue all of its driver licenses — to include a gold star on front — or its residents might not be able to use them to get through airport security.It’s a problem that could cost the state up to $5 million.The star would allow Transportation Security Administration officers to see at a glance that Utah reviewed birth certificates or passports to prove that license holders are U.S. cit
  
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• Federal appeals court upholds conviction of man who shot and killed a Millard County deputy in 2010

  16-08-2018 20:52
  A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the conviction of the man who shot and killed a Millard County Sheriff’s deputy in 2010.Roberto Roman was sentenced last year to life in federal prison — plus 80 years — for the death of Deputy Josie Greathouse-Fox during a traffic stop outside Delta. A federal court jury found Roman guilty of killing Fox five years after a jury acquitted him of similar charges during a trial in state court.In an appeal to the 10th Circuit, Roman’s
  
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• Red All Over: Utes have answered a lot of questions about themselves during this preseason camp. Fans should be encouraged.

  16-08-2018 20:23
  Red All Over is our weekly newsletter on all things Utah athletics, with stories from The Salt Lake Tribune, and other local and national media outlets who are weighing on on the Utes. Subscribe here..The Utah Utes are two weeks away from their first football game of 2018. That’s exciting, for those of us who spend eight months of the year waiting for this stuff.And then the season flies by, of course, but that's a problem for another day.Today marks the reintroduction of The Salt Lake Tri
  
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• At Maria’s Mexican Grill in Millcreek, the rich mole and creamy refried beans are winners, but the rest of the menu needs more spice and flavor

  16-08-2018 20:18
  Millcreek • Maria’s Mexican Grill has been open just eight months and already it’s racked up more than 60 five-star reviews on Facebook. In fact, all of its Facebook reviews are five stars.This is not one of them.To be fair, our scale reaches only four stars. But I can’t, in good conscience, match the enthusiasm of those diners and give Maria’s full marks on our scale either.I’m not saying don’t eat there. You just need to manage expectations.
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• BYU will connect stands at LaVell Edwards Stadium, but won’t increase seating capacity

  16-08-2018 20:17
  Provo • Getting around LaVell Edwards Stadium will be a bit easier in the future.BYU announced Wednesday that it will be making several improvements to the stadium at the end of the 2018 season, but won’t increase its capacity, which currently sits at 63,470.Most notably, BYU will add structural sections at the four corners of the stadium to connect the stands at the mezzanine level. The sections, which will not include seating, will let fans walk between the stands without having to
  
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• #TBT Who still gets chills watching this? https://t.co/CwlaKp87he

  16-08-2018 20:14 via twitter.com
  
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• Bodies of pregnant Colorado woman, 2 daughters likely found

  16-08-2018 19:52
  Frederick, Colo. • The body was found of a pregnant Colorado woman whose husband was arrested in the disappearance of her and her two young daughters, and investigators were trying to recover what they believe are the remains of the girls, authorities said Thursday.Chris Watts, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday in the town of Frederick, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) north of Denver. His 34-year-old wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, we
  
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• 77 years after Pearl Harbor, remains of a Utah Marine, who died while firing his pistol at Japanese planes, are finally coming home

  16-08-2018 19:39
  The envelope from Hawaii is postmarked Dec. 6, 1941. Inside is the last letter 19-year-old Marine Pfc. Robert Kimball Holmes sent home to his father in Salt Lake City.The next day, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Holmes was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma and died with other Marines and sailors aboard it.Holmes’ nephew, Bruce Holmes, of Sandy, on Thursday thought of his grandfather, who died in 1977, when discussing the funeral Monday for the Marine. (Robert Holmes’ mother died i
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Georges Niang experiences Wyoming

  16-08-2018 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... able right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 16, 2018 During the Jazz Youth clinic trip, Jazz forward Georges Niang got to experience parts of the ...
  
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• A 6-year-old Utah girl secretly ordered a $400 ‘Barbie collection.’ Here’s what her parents are doing instead of punishing her.

  16-08-2018 19:27
  A 6-year-old Utah girl’s sneaky Barbie spending spree has become an internet sensation, and an unexpected windfall for Primary Children’s Hospital.Catherine Lunt had ordered one Barbie for her daughter Katelyn, a reward for doing extra chores around the house. When she gave Katelyn permission to check on the order’s status on Amazon.com, Katelyn “went crazy” and ordered what she later called a “Barbie collection.”Lunt didn’t notice until the next d
  
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• More than $1 billion will be spent on weddings this weekend

  16-08-2018 19:26
  This Saturday is the most popular wedding day of the year, according to data released by the Knot. Almost 30,000 couples are set to marry, with associated guests spending an estimated $1 billion on gifts and attire for the happy events, says the site.In advance of this very hectic day, the multiplatform wedding-planning brand (part of XO Group Inc.) released its 2018 Guest Study on Tuesday, revealing average attendee expenses per wedding, as well as factors contributing to whether invitees accep
  
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• Potential new coal plant operator offers few new details

  16-08-2018 19:22
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A Chicago-based company in negotiations to take over a coal-fired power plant in northern Arizona said it would run the generating station at less than half its existing capacity to ensure it’s economical, a company official said Tuesday.Fewer employees, and a new lease and coal supply agreement also are in the mix as Middle River Power pursues a takeover of the Navajo Generating Station. The current owners of the 2,250-megwatt plant near the Arizona-Utah border are
  
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• Former Utah bank manager sentenced in $565K theft case

  16-08-2018 19:16
  Ogden • A former Utah bank manager who was convicted of stealing more than $565,000 was sentenced to more than 2 years in prison.The Standard-Examiner reports 33-year-old Daniel Scott Frischknecht was sentenced in federal court last week, receiving a more severe sentence than expected after he submitted a forged letter of praise from an employer.The former manager of Zions Bank branch in Bountiful pleaded guilty in February after authorities discovered he embezzled money to buy a house.Befo
  
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• Monson: If logic rules, BYU’s starting quarterback will be ...

  16-08-2018 19:14
  If BYU’s quarterback battle really is as close as indicated by coaches, there’s only one thing for them to do, for many reasons: Start Tanner Mangum.If it’s not that close, there is the alternative.Not sure that Kalani Sitake, Jeff Grimes and Aaron Roderick will follow the logic here. Just saying they should follow it, even as whispers leak out one day that Zach Wilson is edging ahead, and the next that coaches are giving Mangum every opportunity to close the deal.Here’s
  
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• A vital U.S. reservoir will survive through the next year, but a ‘disaster’ is looming

  16-08-2018 19:10
  Denver • A vital reservoir on the Colorado River will be able to meet the demands of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest for the next 13 months, but a looming shortage could trigger cutbacks as soon as the end of 2019, officials said Wednesday.A forecast from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation echoes previous warnings that a nearly 20-year trend toward a drier regional climate coupled with rising demand could drain so much water from the Lake Mead reservoir that cutbacks would be mandatory.The report
  
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• 3 Utahns are dead after a hepatitis A outbreak spread from San Diego

  16-08-2018 19:05
  Health officials say a hepatitis A outbreak that originally spread from San Diego has killed three people in Utah, but it's now on the wane.Epidemiologists told state lawmakers on Wednesday that no cases were detected in connection with restaurants where patrons were warned to get tested after workers became infected.No additional details were released about the deaths. Health officials have previously said two people who died belonged to one or more at-risk groups that include homeless, drug us
  
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• ‘Sack Lake City’ is catchy, but Ute defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley cares more about the basics

  16-08-2018 19:02
  Morgan Scalley is not interested in becoming known as the manager, mayor or council chair of Sack Lake City.He just wants to stop the run.Utah’s defense has lost its status as the country’s top sack-producing group, having registered 55 in 2014. Last season, the Utes' 25 quarterback sacks were the program’s fewest since 2006 and tied for 72nd in the country.So you would think the number “25” would have been posted somewhere in the Spence and Cleone Eccles Football C
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Are the Utah Jazz fit to contend in this new age of basketball?

  16-08-2018 18:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... er the last couple seasons. In this age of “positionless” basketball, do the Jazz have any weaknesses, or switches that could lead to -like deficiencies? It m ...
  
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• Single-game tickets are on sale NOW! Which games are you most excited for?! >> on.nba.com/2MSiM9O https://t.co/nKUMyl21pR

  16-08-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  
  Single-game tickets are on sale NOW!Which games are you most excited for?!>> on.nba.com/2MSiM9O https://t.co/nKUMyl21pR
  
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• U.S. officials: Iraqi refugee arrested in California was part of terror group

  16-08-2018 18:00
  Sacramento, Calif. • A refugee from Iraq was arrested Wednesday in Northern California on a warrant alleging that he killed an Iraqi policeman while fighting for the Islamic State organization.Omar Abdulsattar Ameen, 45, and other members of ISIS killed the officer after the town of Rawah, Iraq, fell to the Islamic State in June 2014, according to court documents.He was arrested by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force at a Sacramento apartment building based on a warrant issued in May by an I
  
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• The soul of gospel great Aretha Franklin — ‘She took you to church even if she was singing about a no-good man’

  16-08-2018 17:49
  Aretha Franklin, a singer who began her career with gospel music and was later crowned the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday after battling a range of health issues.Often simply called “Aretha,” Franklin, 76, got her start in the Detroit church of her pastor father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin. She was first recorded at his New Bethel Baptist Church on the album “Spirituals” at age 14.“Aretha, like Al Green, is one of the few artists who is universally accepted
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - If the Utah Jazz were Star Wars Characters

  16-08-2018 17:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ft night deal with the . If only Lindsey could be the general manager of the Jazz for 900 years! = Emperor Palpetine The Evil Genius. One moment he seems like ...
  
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• Holly Richardson: Reprehensible tales of child sexual abuse and cover-up prove the statute of limitations needs to be changed

  16-08-2018 17:34
  Hundreds of predators. Over a thousand victims. Sadism rings, child pornography, “sharing” victims and cover-up that reached, in some cases, all the way to the top, by men in positions of trust and authority, men of God, they called themselves.The scathing, almost 1,400-page report from a Pennsylvania grand jury lays out a sordid and disturbing tale of decades of abuse and cover-up within six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. The grand jury met for two years, reviewed a half a milli
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: In defense of Greg Ostertag, who was better than you remember

  16-08-2018 16:21 via sportspyder.com
  ...John Stockton with regularity. During the ’96-97 campaign, the Jazz outscored opponents by a whopping 15.9 points per 100 possessions with Oster ...
  
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• ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin has died

  16-08-2018 16:18
  Detroit • Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer.Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn tells The Associated Press through a family statement that Franklin died Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit. The statement said "Franklin's official cause of death was due to advance p
  
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• Utah Jazz: In defense of Greg Ostertag, who was better than you remember

  16-08-2018 16:05
  To this day, people gripe about Greg Ostertag’s time with the Utah Jazz. Here’s a newsflash for you: despite his shortcomings, he was actually a decent player. When I published my list of the 15 best draft picks in Utah Jazz history earlier this summer, I caught some flak for including Greg Ostertag in the […]
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• Political Cornflakes: Kellyanne Conway is one of Trump’s most loyal advisers; her husband can’t stand him.

  16-08-2018 15:59
  Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s loyal adviser, is the woman who carried him over the finish line to the White House. But her husband, George, is one of the president’s most notable conservative critics and wishes he’d never introduced his wife to Trump in the first place. At the Conways', it’s a house divided, and their feud is playing out for more than just the neighbors to see as George has increasingly taken to Twitter to call out what he sees as Trump&rsquo
  
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• The ‘ruination’ of eardrums and livers: Anthrax supporting Slayer in Utah this Sunday

  16-08-2018 15:24
  As two of the so-called “Big Four” bands of thrash metal, Anthrax and Slayer have a long and loud history together. So it only made sense that the former would join the latter for their retirement tour.As it turns out, Anthrax agreed to come along for the ride before they even knew it would be the last one of Slayer’s career.“We’re very close, good friends with Slayer, for forever. … I’d heard rumors about it and I’d talked to the guys about it, a
  
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• Gehrke: While Interior chief Ryan Zinke keeps ‘gaslighting’ on climate change, our forests burn more and more intensely

  16-08-2018 15:23
  So far this year, more than 5.7 million acres have burned in this nation due to wildfire.In California, some 750,000 acres have been destroyed, along with thousands of structures. And on Monday, Draper Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett died after a tree fell on him while he was helping fight blazes in that state.In Utah, more than 160,000 acres have been charred and state Forester Brian Cottam told legislators Wednesday that this could be one of the worst fire years on record.Then we have Interio
  
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• From pickleball courts to soft-serve frozen treats, Utah’s up-and-coming tech firms load up on employee perks

  16-08-2018 15:05
  Lehi • Playing tour guide at his company’s just-opened new headquarters, Podium CEO Eric Rea shows off the spacious conference room, the custom-built boardroom table, the pickleball court just outside and the soft-serve Dole Whip dispenser by the reception desk.“We don’t want [people] to walk in feeling they’re coming into any old tech building. We want to feel different from any other tech company,” Rea said Wednesday, just minutes after he, company officials
  
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• Letter: Taxing medical devices reduces profits, but shouldn’t reduce jobs and innovation

  16-08-2018 15:00
  In a recent article about the delay or repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s medical device tax, an executive of Merit Medical said, “20 percent of this company’s net after-tax profit was sent to Washington, D.C., rather than reinvested in technologies here and growth for our business.”How much more disingenuous can you get? Taxes are measured against income, not “after-tax profit.” The medical device tax is a 2.3 percent tax on medical device supplies. There is
  
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• Letter: Small nuclear reactor would be much safer than traditional large ones

  16-08-2018 15:00
  As CEO/general manager of the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, I wish to correct errors contained in a July 31 letter from a known critic of nuclear power generation who questioned the wisdom of UAMPS’ public power agencies developing a nonpolluting, carbon-free, small modular nuclear reactor project. The letter writer has misportrayed the facts of this non-greenhouse-gas-emitting resource, ignoring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s rigorous process to grant design certific
  
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• Letter: Mormon support of Trump still makes no sense

  16-08-2018 15:00
  “What would it take for Mormons to dump Trump?” Robert Rees and Clifton Jolley asked in the Aug. 12 Tribune. First, we have to ask, why would Mormons choose Donald Trump as our world leader? It appears that Mormon support for Trump is the highest of any religious group in our nation at 61 percent.Evidently, immorality “trumps” the morality of our sovereign nation under the raunchy, scandalous leadership of “the Donald.” Evidently, making a profit, lying, money
  
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• Letter: Don’t we have enough space cadets in government already?

  16-08-2018 15:00
  I read with some interest Alexandra Petri's call for support of the president’s proposed Space Force, and while I quite agree that nothing in the universe could possibly be more important or timely, Alexandra, I don't think you have thought this out to its conclusion.The demand for space cadets could decimate the president’s Cabinet.Jay Hansen, ProvoSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Cyber Force is more needed than Space Force

  16-08-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump is planning to inaugurate a sixth branch of the Armed Forces to be known as Space Force. Evidently, he’s unaware that our military is already deeply involved in space as part of our national defense, including highly competent agencies such as the USAF Space Command and NASA.If he insists on bursting the national debt any worse than occurred with his recent tax break, primarily benefiting the super wealthy, I can think of something better than doubling up on our defe
  
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• Letter: Alta is dead to me after its greedy actions on Grizzly Gulch

  16-08-2018 15:00
  I can’t believe that I have to compose this message to Alta, a ski resort that feels like a family member to me. I learned to ski at Alta in 1988, have memories of hundreds of days under its blue skies and even got married under Alf’s HighRustler. My whole life, Alta has been by far and away my favorite ski resort and embodies part of who I am.Unfortunately, Alta’s move to exclude Grizzly Gulch from the Mountain Accord land transfer is a deep betrayal that causes me to have to
  
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• Holly Richardson: Unfathomable, reprehensible tales of child sexual abuse and cover-up

  16-08-2018 15:00
  Hundreds of predators. Over a thousand victims. Sadism rings, child pornography, “sharing” victims and cover-up that reached, in some cases, all the way to the top, by men in positions of trust and authority, men of God, they called themselves.The scathing, almost 1,400-page report from a Pennsylvania grand jury lays out a sordid and disturbing tale of decades of abuse and cover-up within six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. The grand jury met for two years, reviewed a half a milli
  
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• ‘This is the only way we can honor him’: Utahns line streets to say goodbye to fallen Draper firefighter

  16-08-2018 07:55
  A black hearse carrying the body of Matthew Burchett rolled down a small side street on Wednesday night, heading to the mortuary where his family members would get a chance to say their goodbyes.The procession, led by motorcycles, arrived in South Jordan well after nightfall. Despite a several-hour delay in getting Burchett’s body home, hundreds of supporters — more numerous even than the American flags placed along the route earlier in the day — still lined the road to pay the
  
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• Utah’s medical marijuana ballot measure would violate Mormons’ religious beliefs, opponents say in new court filing, which initiative supporters call a ‘Hail Mary’

  16-08-2018 06:31
  Members of the campaign against Utah’s medical marijuana initiative filed a lawsuit in state court Wednesday, seeking to remove the issue from the November ballot.It is their second lawsuit intending to block voters from weighing in on legalizing the federally illegal plant. Proponents of the measure called the latest filing a “wacky attempt” to stop Utahns from voting on it.In the complaint, opponents of Proposition 2 — which would legalize marijuana for people with an a
  
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